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Latin Patriarchate condemns Israeli settlers' encroachments on Church land in the West Bank (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
After a meeting with Israeli officials, the Latin Patriarchate, led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M., announced it had filed a complaint about “the attacks against local residents and Patriarchate lands in several locations. Following this complaint, the authorities began the necessary actions, including pursuing those responsible and seizing heavy machinery used for land destruction and damage at the site.”
“Protecting Church endowment properties is a red line,” the Patriarchate said. “It will continue to take all legal and administrative steps needed to protect their sanctity, preserve their Church identity, defend their lawful rights, and continue supporting the local people.”
The Pope has called us to personal responsibility, leading Equatorial Guinea prelate says (Vatican News)
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“The Holy Father has called both the Church and Christians engaged in social life to work for the coming of the Kingdom,” Bishop Juan Domingo-Beka Esono Ayang, C.M.F., of Mongomo said in an interview with the Vatican News podcast Nota Ecclesial. “The future is not something to be awaited passively; it calls for the commitment of each and every one of us.”
Church in Vietnam faces challenges from AI, mass media, bishop says after papal audience (Vatican News)
Posted on 04/25/2026 05:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Auxiliary Bishop Dominic Nguyễn Tuan Anh of Xuân Lộc made his remarks after an April 24 papal audience with Vietnam’s bishops, who were in Rome for their ad limina visit.
“The Vietnamese Church is a family, and in our culture, family is very strong,” the prelate said. “The Church has also been blessed by God’s grace and by the blood of our martyrs ... So we need to unite; we need to unify, and with God’s grace, we can face this challenge in the way of faith, in the way of hope.”
Located in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a Communist nation of 106.7 million (map) that is 48% Buddhist and 10% Christian, with 12% adhering to ethnic religions.
Pope Leo: 'The Church teaches that the death penalty is inadmissible' (CWN)
Posted on 04/25/2026 05:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Citing Pope Francis’s 2018 revision of a paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV said that “the Church teaches that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.’“
When Teaching the Faith Becomes a Crime in Iceland
Posted on 04/25/2026 03:00 AM (The Daily Register)
Pope offers advice to Christians engaged in politics (CWN)
Posted on 04/25/2026 02:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Pope Leo XIV received leading members of the European People’s Party today and offered advice to Christians engaged in politics: first and foremost, “rediscovering and embracing the Christian heritage from which you come, while still maintaining the necessary distinction between prophetic religious witness—reserved to the ecclesial community—and Christian witness expressed through concrete political choices.”
Former Attorney General Bill Barr: U.S Military Action Against Iran Meets Criteria for ‘Just War’
Posted on 04/25/2026 01:00 AM (The Daily Register)
Apr. 25 Feast of St. Mark, Evangelist; <em>Major Rogation Day</em>, Feast
Posted on 04/25/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)
Pontiff's brother denies report that Pope planned to visit US in 2026 (NBC 5 Chicago)
Posted on 04/24/2026 22:04 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
NBC 5 Chicago reported:
There are no revealed plans for Pope Leo to visit the U.S. any time soon, but was there a time when plans fell through because of the acrimony espoused by the president? Prevost says no.
“I think one thing that has to be made clear is when some newscaster announced that the Pope canceled a trip to the United States. That’s not true,” he said. “At no time, was the Pope planning a trip the United States this year.”
The Pontiff is scheduled to deliver a livestream talk to Americans on July 3, when he receives the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center.
White House to Bring Back Firing Squads as Pope Leo XIV Calls for US Death Penalty to Be Abolished
Posted on 04/24/2026 22:01 PM (The Daily Register)